Stage 12
Alpecin's lead-out unravels
- Thursday 7 September 2023
- 166 km
- 888 m climbed
- Won by Juan Sebastián Molano
The road
At the start
Zaragoza, and a rare flat day
Sepp Kuss keeps red with 26 seconds on Marc Soler and 1:09 on Remco Evenepoel, and three Jumbo-Visma riders now sit inside the top seven. Today is 166 kilometres to Zaragoza, one of very few flat days in a mountainous Vuelta, and the organisers have warned of wind — nobody with a classification to protect can switch off. Kaden Groves has won two sprints and lost one he should have had.
How it was won
- At the line
Alpecin's lead-out unravels
Just 300 metres out Groves is boxed between his last man, the barriers and the advancing sprinters — and drops his chain, with nowhere to go.
- At the line
Zaragoza
UAE punch through the chaos and Juan Sebastián Molano takes the win, with a boxed-in Groves recovering only for second.
The result
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Juan Sebastián Molano | UAE Team Emirates | 3:23:35 |
| 2 | Kaden Groves | Alpecin - Deceuninck | +0:00 |
| 3 | Boy van Poppel | Intermarché - Circus - Wanty | +0:00 |
The route on real terrain, every moment pinned to the kilometre it happened on — and the GPX to ride it yourself.